Methods and systems for optimizing network traffic using preemptive acknowledgment signals

A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for increasing data flow in a network, the stored instructions comprising machine executable code, which when executed by at least one processor in a network traffic management device, causes the processor to perform steps comprising

• receiving a request for server data from the requesting computer and sending the request to the server over the network;
• receiving a first portion of the server data from the server;
• determining whether a remaining portion of the server data, not yet received at the network traffic management device in response to the request, is stored at the network traffic management device based on the received first portion of the server data;
• sending a preemptive acknowledgement signal from the network traffic management device to the server, subsequent to receiving the first portion of the server data, to cause the server to terminate transmission of the remaining portion of the server data, when the remaining portion of the sever data is determined to be stored at the network traffic management device;
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• sending the remaining portion of the server data stored at the network traffic management device to the requesting computer.

A network traffic management device comprising:

• a network interface configured to receive and transmit data packets between a requesting computer and a server device over a network;
• a memory having stored thereon code embodying machine executable programmable instructions for increasing data flow in the network;
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• a processor configured to execute the stored programming instructions in the memory to perform steps comprising:
• receiving a request for server data from the requesting computer and sending the request to the server over the network;
• receiving a first portion of the server data from the server;
• determining whether a remaining portion of the server data, not yet received at the network traffic management device in response to the request, is stored at the network traffic management device based on the received first portion of the server data;
• sending a preemptive acknowledgement signal from the network traffic management device to the server, subsequent to receiving the first portion of the server data, to cause the server to terminate transmission of the remaining portion of the server data, when the remaining portion of the sever data is determined to be stored at the network traffic management device;
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• sending the remaining portion of the server data stored at the network traffic management device to the requesting computer.